Software Development Engineer II, Personal Information Domain, Enterprise Onboarding and Experience

Interested in working with the latest technology in the cloud computing space to impact millions of people The Joining Amazon Technology team is building intelligent solutions to revolutionize the way we onboard 2.8 million Amazon new workers a year in over 60 countries. We do not depend on third party monolithic HR systems. Our software products use Amazon Web Services to intelligently work through the complexity of country and role differences and ensure new hires start successfully on Day 1 with delightful onboarding experiences. We enable all Amazon business success to onboard new workers to meet dynamic business and market demands e.g. over 100000 new hires in the US and Canada in record speed during the COVID-19 pandemic and country and region holiday and prime day retail lifecycle spikes. Our mission is clear: We seek to be the most technically proficient HR organization in the world.

The Personal Information Domain (PID) Platform team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II with a passion for building full-stack enterprise solutions using cloud technologies. The team owns both customer-facing experiences and back-end services to enable Personal Information management across all of Amazon. From pre-boarding to alumni all Amazonians globally will interact with the products this team builds and maintains.

We are seeking experienced engineers with strong ownership. You will own and lead projects that impact new Amazonians around the globe. Amazon business success depends on your ability to innovate and enable Amazon workforces onboarding speed and success. If youre thrilled by the idea of ownership passionate about creating new features and services from scratch and comfortable with the pace of shipping software in cycles measured in weeks we would love to connect with you.

Key job responsibilities
As a SDE II on the team you will own the end-to-end design build and maintenance of domain platform services HR admin experiences and sophisticated data validation capabilities all to ensure our customer receive the HR support and services they need. A successful Software Development Engineer II will have a broad array of experiences exceptional design skills strong technical judgement an excellent ability to solve problems good communication skills and a desire to be a key technical contributor. The software you build will be used across all of Amazons locations globally and impact millions of Amazonians and will require a breadth of front-end and back-end technical development knowledge. Daily work will involve interacting with engineers product managers stakeholders and managers.

A day in the life
On a daily basis we are designing and implementing new features enhancements and problem solving complex issues that often require cross-team collaboration and a holistic business process understanding. We are the customer too! Our team is building products that we also daily conversations with Product Managers we advocate for and invent solutions to improve the customer experience. What we do affects everyone at Amazon. We move fast! Our team focuses on prioritization and fast decision making to deliver for the customer without sacrificing good engineering practices.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.